Opus Dei
(Saint Josemaría)
Work as enduring human activity
Reflections on the value of human work from Pope John Paul II, Msgr. Fernando Ocariz, and St. Josemaria Escriva. First published in BusinessWorld, 1 June 2021.
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Those who are trying to fathom the future of work after the pandemic are focusing inordinately on the technical and technological aspects of work. There is much talk about remote work (work from home), hybrid work (a combination of working at home and at the office), the digitalization of communications and transactions, acceleration of the so-called Industrial Revolution 4.0 (Artificial Intelligence, robotization, Internet of Things, Big Data), etc. We should not forget, however, that work is, first and foremost, a human activity. As St. John Paul II wrote in his encyclical “On Human Work”:
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BusinessWorld
June 1, 2021 | 6:31 pm
Part 1
Those who are trying to fathom the future of work after the pandemic are focusing inordinately on the technical and technological aspects of work. There is much talk about remote work (work from home), hybrid work (a combination of working at home and at the office), the digitalization of communications and transactions, acceleration of the so-called Industrial Revolution 4.0 (Artificial Intelligence, robotization, Internet of Things, Big Data), etc. We should not forget, however, that work is, first and foremost, a human activity. As St. John Paul II wrote in his encyclical “On Human Work”:
“Through work man must earn his daily bread and contribute to the continual advance of science and technology and, above all, to elevating unceasingly the cultural and moral level of the society within which he lives in community with those who belong to the same family. And work means any activity by man, whether manual or i
Holding back: Media split on covering Bong Go s poor performance in Senate
CMFR
31 May 2021, 16:13 GMT+10
LAST MAY 20 and 25, neophyte Senator Christopher Bong Go struggled to answer veteran politician and Minority Floor Leader Franklin Drilon s questions about Go s proposed bills to increase bed capacities and to re-nationalize hospitals. Some reports noted Go s faltering performance, the kind of coverage Go has not quite gotten from the media. Other news organizations stuck to their PR-type coverage of Go, or cited officials who favored him.
Go s legislative capacity
As chair of the Senate committee on health and demography, Go sponsored 15 bills to increase the bed capacities of several hospitals nationwide. During a plenary session on May 20, he failed to mention that two of the bills would also return control of two provincial hospitals - Benguet General Hospital and Lanao del Norte Provincial Hospital to the national government.